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Chapter 10: Putting Your Wireless Home Network to Work
2. To change the Name of your PC, click the Change Settings link.
The System Properties dialog box appears.
3. Click the Change button.
The Computer Name/Domain Change dialog box appears.
4. At this point you can you can change the computer name and the
Workgroup name if required. When you’ve made your changes,
click OK.
Make sure to use the same Workgroup name on each PC that you want
to enable file sharing with.
Windows Vista displays a User Account Security Control window after most
changes to the system. This prompt is asking you to confirm that you really
want to change what you said you want to change, or access what you said
you want to access. You are going to see this prompt a lot in Windows Vista.
The second way to check and change the Workgroup name in Vista is to open
Windows Explorer:
1. Left-click the Windows Start orb.
Yes, it’s called an orb now (we don’t know why), and it replaces the Start
Menu button.
2. To the right of the pop-up menu, you see a menu option labeled
Computer. Right-click Computer and choose Properties.
Your local machine used to be called My Computer but is now called
simply Computer. Ed figures the programmers at Microsoft just got
tired of typing, given all the changes they already made to Vista.
3. At this point you are back at Step 2 and can follow the same steps to
change the computer name and Workgroup name.
Setting up sharing in Vista
Now that you have your workgroup set up correctly, you should be able to
see other shared computers and resources on the network. If you were using
a Windows XP machine, you could just start setting up shares right now. Not
so in Vista. Microsoft took all the security complaints about XP to heart when
they created Vista, adding a second layer of firewall security (beyond the
standard Windows Firewall) onto the network adapter itself. This prevents
the machine from announcing itself on the network. (See the previous section,
“Will You Be My Neighbor?”) Before you can share anything, you need to
configure your network adapter so it will announce itself to the network:
1. Left-click the Start orb, and from the menu in the right column choose
Network.
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